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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,191 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 33 of 60
CHARLES Cox sued Thomas Bell, of West Wallsend, for the sum of £6 12s, balance of wages due. There was no appearance of the defendant…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →JOHN CULLEN and Richard Johnson were fined the usual 5s, or 24 hours, for being drunk. Ellen Morgan, an old offender, was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ABOUT 3 o'clock on Sunday afternoon three detectives succeeded in elucidating the mystery of the Carlton murder and in arresting the murderer, who is a native of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SYDNEY, Monday Night.—In Bankruptcy, this morning, before Mr. Justice Deffell, the petition of the English, Scottish, and Australian Chartered Bank, for the compulsory…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ROBBRT MOXTON was charged with deserting his wife at Parramatta. Constable Mullane deposed to arresting the accused on Tuesday, the 17th inst., at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CHARLES OLSEN, a young Norwegian tar, sat sad, solitary, and silent in the box before their Worships when the court opened. On being questioned, be admitted that he had…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At the Wallsend Police Court on Monday the P.M. referred to the necessity of the Government providing it lockup at this place, and said that a constable should also be…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Elizabeth Payten was charged, on the information of Elizabeth Bray, with using indecent language. There was no appearance of the complainant, and the case was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WILLIAM REID, James Fraser, Joseph Williams, Martin Burgeson, and George Gallaby were fined the usual 5s, or 24 hours, for being drunk in various parts of the city…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE only case set down for hearing was the postponed wages case from the last court day—Charles Cox v Thos. Wells, and for the second time the defendant did not put in an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MARTIN BURGESON and Joseph Wilson were fined 5s, or 24 hours, for drunkenness. Kate Hoy, a Chinaman's bride, was mulcted in the sum of 5s, or 24 hours, for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE adjourned inquest on the body of Annie Agnes Emily Hunter, who died in the Prince Alfred Hospital, on the 10th instant, from injuries said to have been inflicted by her…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Alexander M'Donald was found, on the information of the inspector of nuisances, Hamilton, the sum of 5s and 2s 6d costs for allowing his horses to stray…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BERLIN, Thursday.—Severe sentences have been passed upon 35 miners for taking part in the recent riots arising out of the strikes in Silesia…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—I would wish to call the attention of the public, and of those more intimately interested, through your columns, to a matter of grave import which is going on daily, and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Two constables were to-day charged with perjury in having sworn that a certain man was drunk. The case was dismissed with costs against the prosecutor…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE three boys Eaton, and the brothers Ford, were again placed in the dock and charged with the second offence of larceny, viz., that of breaking and entering a signal-box on the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THREE "drunks," of the male persuasion, namely, William Jordan, Alex. Murray, and Thomas Thomas, were mulcted in the usual sum of 5s, or 24 hours' imprisonment, for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At the Wollongong Police Court on Thursday, before Mr. W. H. Thomas, P.M., and Mr. J. Biggar, J.P., the case of the Mount Kembla Coal Company against Edward…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →OREDGE OSKAR, a Norwegian was mulcted in the sum of 10s, or four hours' imprisonment, for being drunk on the previous evening. Disobedience…
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